What did you do today non-detailing related?

**CleanIT** · 07-23-2023, 01:03 PM

Virginia

**JDGolden** · 07-23-2023, 01:11 PM

Gotta love being able to see for miles and miles. Nice truck and pics.

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**Big Dave** · 07-26-2023, 08:03 AM

I went comet hunting tonight, and I found one. By chance, a news story showed up in my feed about Comet C2021 T4 (Lemmon), and we have a clear night. It's high in the sky in the constellation Ara, which I'm not familiar with. So I opened my Stellarium app, and it not only showed me where the constellation is, but where the comet is. I got out my fold out recliner and my Nikon 10-22 X 50s, and went hunting. Less than 5 minutes later I found it, I didn't believe it, so I zoomed on it in the app, the stars around it matched. Cool. I'll probably try with my telescope tomorrow night. Fyi this comet won't be back for another 36000 years.

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**Big Dave** · 07-27-2023, 07:18 AM

More comet hunting, this time with my telescope and binoculars. Found it again, it hadn't moved much. Too dim to get a good picture without an expensive set up, basically looks like a smudge on the lens. With a long exposure shot it looks bright green apparently. I did get this shot of the moon by holding my phone up to the telescope though.

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**Big Dave** · 07-28-2023, 02:08 AM

I took this image of the Sun this afternoon, the little dark bits are sunspots. Then I looked up the current sunspot activity to confirm it wasn't just a dirty lens. I had to process it a little bit in Photoshop. I only adjusted contrast, exposure, clarity and sharpness. It's not perfectly round due to the angle I had to take the image at.

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**Big Dave** · 07-31-2023, 09:53 PM

I went in to donate blood today, ended up donating plasma, they needed that more apparently.

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**MisterSnoop** · 08-01-2023, 08:54 AM

Woke up at 1:45 am to book lodges at Glacier National Park for August 2024. They open up reservations for the month at midnight their time on Aug 1st. We were able to get everything booked. Last year we had to wait until they opened up the phones in the morning to get rooms because we couldn't get them online.